Student View: How To Get Into UT Austin
The Daily Texan: “Current and former students who offer insight into UT admissions and campus life have become popular, unofficial faces...
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Beth & Tim Manners
Feb 26, 20192 min read
How to Measure ‘Performance’ for Admissions?
Education Week: “Imagine a high school where students skip standardized end-of-course tests. Instead, to pass a class or graduate, they...
Beth & Tim Manners
Feb 14, 20191 min read
Plus Factors: Yale Students Weigh In
Yale Daily News: “As the use of affirmative action as a factor in undergraduate admissions comes under fire, Yale students appear split...
Beth & Tim Manners
Feb 12, 20191 min read
Vanderbilt: Where Disabilities Are Not Disadvantages
Forbes: “According to Think College, a national organization dedicated to developing college opportunities for individuals with...
Beth & Tim Manners
Feb 8, 20191 min read
Alt-SAT/ACT: The CLT (Classic Learning Test)
Real Clear Education: “Starting a company from scratch that’s able to compete with the long-entrenched SAT and ACT in the...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jan 31, 20191 min read
Successful Applications Are Matter of Fact
Daily Pennsylvanian: “Like most universities, Penn does not have a standard system for fact-checking applications. Admissions officers...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jan 30, 20191 min read
Night of the Living Deadlines
The Wall Street Journal: “The deadline to apply for admission to Oberlin College was Jan. 15. Until it wasn’t. The Ohio liberal-arts...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jan 25, 20191 min read
Boston College Adds ‘Early Decision’
BC News: “Boston College will introduce an Early Decision program for undergraduate admission this year, in an effort to meet the growing...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jan 24, 20191 min read
Ivies Trim Early Acceptances
The Daily Pennsylvanian: “Every Ivy League school that has released its early admissions data saw declines in their early acceptances...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jan 21, 20191 min read
Community College Transfers Soar at Elite Schools
The Atlantic: A new study “finds that graduation rates of community-college transfers meet or exceed those of students who enroll at...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jan 18, 20191 min read
Who’s The Most Selective Of Them All?
Not surprising, the top five are: Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Yale and Princeton. You can review the complete list here.
Beth & Tim Manners
Jan 9, 20192 min read
UMass: ‘ZooMass’ No More?
The Boston Globe: “In boosting its academic profile, UMass is following the path previously taken by several local private colleges,...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jan 7, 20191 min read
Round 1: Early Applications Jump Again
The Washington Post: “At the University of Virginia, most applications arrive by Nov. 1 for the first round of freshman admissions. There...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jan 4, 20191 min read
How Many APs Is AP-propriate?
US News: “Advanced Placement classes can set applicants apart in a competitive college admissions environment, demonstrating the ability...
Beth & Tim Manners
Dec 21, 20181 min read
Admissions Tip: Making the Grade with GPA
Jeffrey J. Selingo: “A recent survey of college admissions officers found that nothing carries more weight in deciding which applicants...
Beth & Tim Manners
Dec 20, 20181 min read
Tell The Truth: They Know When You are Lying
The New York Times: “The Common Application asks students to certify that they are telling the truth, but does not try to independently...
Beth & Tim Manners
Dec 14, 20181 min read
What to Do When You Are Deferred?
Yale: “Students who apply early will receive one of three decisions in mid-December: Accept, Defer, or Deny … Here’s the deal. A deferral...
Beth & Tim Manners
Dec 4, 20181 min read
Will Algorithms Change Admissions?
USA Today: “Relax, the robots aren’t coming for college admissions quite yet. Real people will still be deciding on applicants for quite...
Beth & Tim Manners
Dec 3, 20182 min read
Grade Inflation: Putting the ‘Grit’ Back in GPA
Mitch Daniels: “In many cases, the GPA proves to be a reliable indicator of discipline, persistence and resilience — characteristics...
Beth & Tim Manners
Nov 30, 20181 min read
Aw, Snap: Admissions Interest in Social Media Drops
Adweek: “The emergence of social platforms and features where content disappears or is not easily available for viewing by people who are...
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